A note on the link between firm size and exports

Hernández, Pedro Jesús

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A note on the link between firm size and exports

dc.contributor.author	Hernández, Pedro Jesús
dc.contributor.department	Fundamentos del Análisis Económico
dc.date.accessioned	2013-11-28T15:59:41Z
dc.date.available	2013-11-28T15:59:41Z
dc.date.created	2013-12
dc.date.issued	2013-11-28
dc.description.abstract	This paper re-examines the link between firm size and exports in order to study the proposal that consists of increasing the firm size to raise exports as a way out of the current economic crisis. The elasticity of export propensity (percentage of exported sales) with respect to firm size depends on several firm characteristics. The new heories of international trade emphasize the firm heterogeneity as the theoretical basis of this behaviour. In the context of such heterogeneity, this paper uses the quantile regression methodology to analyze the effect of firm size on export propensity of the firms, confirming the existence of a positive relationship that becomes less important as export propensity increases. The traditional estimate of this elasticity on the average of the export propensities distribution underestimates the effect in the bottom of the distribution and overestimates the effect on most of it.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	12	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/37132
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Proyecto de investigación:	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	WP-UMUFAE	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2013-03	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.subject	Firms size	en_EN
dc.subject	Exports	en_EN
dc.subject.other	33 - Economía	es
dc.title	A note on the link between firm size and exports	en_EN
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper	es
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